These babies landed on my desk recently for review and were intriguing to me — especially since my hands have been dry as shit lately with the weather dropping to ungoldy temperatures — so I took them for a test drive to see if they'd actually work.

Here's the verdict: after popping both gloves in the microwave to heat up and melt the multitude of paraffin waxes, coconut oil, and lavender oil each contain, I waited until the heart on the front of the glove was black, not red (an indicator that it's too hot to put your pretty little hands in), and then I slit the top of the glove with scissors, slipped my hands in each of them, and had a co-worker tighten the velcro to keep the wax from seeping out. I officially felt somewhat like Edward Scissorhands.

The instructions said to leave the gloves on for 15 minutes, so I did. At first the wax was pretty hot, but the temperature quickly lowered and I could feel the wax-slash-oil blend hardening around my hands. It felt weird, but also kind of cool.

When I finally removed each glove at the sink, my hands look really prune-y, as if I'd been in the bathtub too long. And since that's a sign of over-hydration, I knew my hands were definitely moisturized, but I wasn't sure how smooth they were going to feel. I wanted baby's-ass kind of soft, but after I washed and dried my hands to get the excess oil off, they didn't feel Gerber baby-like — instead, they felt soft-ish, but more similar to how they felt before I started. #Fail.

The packaging says to repeat this process weekly, and since you can use each glove four times, the month supply of at-home paraffin wax ($40; glovetreat.com) might just do the job for you — like I said, my hands did feel oiled up and somewhat moisturized. However, in my opinion, it didn't provide the longer-lasting hydration that my hands need.